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gelasius_i · c. 494 · score 0.02
… hings pertaining to the public order, the bishops themselves recognize that the imperial governance has been conferred upon you by divine arrangement, and they obey your laws, lest they should seem to resist the order established for worldly affairs. With what affection, I ask, ought you to obey those who have been ass …
gelasius_i · c. 493 · score 0.02
Euphemius moreover, I am astonished if he does not himself recognize his own ignorance. For if he knew the canons, he would know that the apostolic see has the right to judge all and is judged by none, as the blessed Pope Gelasius declares. The two powers by which this world is principally governed are the sacred autho …
gregory_great · c. 590 · score 0.02
And yet even this is not enough; but something besides is said to be exacted according to a custom of many years. This practice we altogether detest, and desire it to be utterly extirpated from the patrimony. But, whether in this or in other minute imposts, let your Experience consider what is paid too much per pound, …
gelasius_i · c. 492 · score 0.02
Which things our ancestors, discerning by divine inspiration, necessarily took precaution that against each heresy, once the council had been celebrated and the decision made, this should remain perpetually firm, and that the same cause should never be allowed to come under examination again. They rightly understood th …
gelasius_i · c. 494 · score 0.02
The servants of your piety, my sons Faustus the master and Irenaeus, illustrious men, and their companions performing their public embassy, having returned to the city, said that your clemency had inquired why I had not sent writings of my greeting to you. Not by my own design, I confess, but since those who had long s …
pliny_younger · c. 100 · score 0.02
But I pledge you my word of honour that you will find his virtues to be far in excess of my description of them. I have the most intense affection for the young man, and he deserves my love, but it is one of the proofs of a lover that you do not overburden the object of your regard with praise. Farewell. [Note: The Emp …
leo_great · c. 441 · score 0.01
While each metropolitan retains his authority to ordain within his province, the ordination of metropolitans themselves must be conducted only after careful and considered judgment. We demand particular excellence in those who preside over their fellow priests. Attend to this with all diligence, so that you may be seen …
gregory_great · c. 600 · score 0.01
Brothers and sisters, I have appointed Gaudiosus, bishop of Iguvium, as visitor to your community, and I write to ask — indeed to require — that you give him your full cooperation and obedience. A visitor arrives with the authority of this see, and resistance to his ministry is, in effect, resistance to this see itself …
gregory_great · c. 601 · score 0.01
I am directing you to ensure that the agents and administrators of the Roman church do not trouble or disturb Hereditas, a woman of good standing, in the management of her affairs. It has come to my attention that some of our own people have been acting in ways that amount to harassment, and this is not acceptable. The …
simplicius_pope · c. 472 · score 0.01
Pope Simplicius to Emperor Zeno. When recently the brother and fellow-bishop of Simplicius's humbleness came to the city, various parties seeking to exploit the peace of the Church for factional purposes presented themselves. Simplicius addresses the dangerous situation in Alexandria where Timothy Aelurus and his suppo …
gregory_great · c. 591 · score 0.01
The value of the farmland produce matters little to me if fraud is mixed in. If it comes to my knowledge that you are lax about this, you will be held responsible. Furthermore, I have learned that the Jews in Catania have been complaining that they were expelled by force from the site of their synagogue, which they had …
gelasius_i · c. 492 · score 0.01
To this we respond that the dignity of a church depends not upon the political importance of the city in which it is located but upon its apostolic foundation. The Roman Church holds the primacy not because Rome was once the capital of the empire but because it was founded by the blessed apostles Peter and Paul, and be …
innocent_i · c. 406 · score 0.01
… opal judgment was being awaited, sacred bishops were driven into exile? That by imperial favor, while the wretched prisons of the guilty were being opened, the innocent ministers of sacred law and peace were shut in by a cruel prison? That everything was thrown into confusion in the manner of war, and some were killed …
pliny_younger · c. 112 · score 0.01
To Trajan. Publius Attius Aquila, Sir, a centurion of the sixth cohort of horse, * asked me to forward to you a memorial in which he begs your indulgence on behalf of the status of his daughter. I thought it would be hard to deny him, especially as I know what a ready and kindly ear you turn to the requests of your sol …
simplicius_pope · c. 479 · score 0.01
Pope Simplicius to Emperor Zeno. Simplicius urges Zeno to expel Peter Mongus from the city of Alexandria. Recently, when certain matters were brought to his attention, he had occasion to write to the emperor on this subject. He insists that Peter Mongus, who was condemned by the orthodox party and by the apostolic see, …
innocent_i · c. 413 · score 0.01
The authority of this apostolic see, established by the will of God through the blessed apostle Peter, extends its care over all the churches throughout the world, and therefore when questions arise that affect the discipline of the Church and the salvation of souls, it is right that they be referred to this see for re …
gelasius_i · c. 496 · score 0.01
Among the decretals of the apostolic see which we commend to the attention of all the churches, the following are of particular importance: the letters of blessed Clement, the letters of blessed Anacletus, the letters of blessed Evaristus, and those of all the subsequent bishops of Rome who have spoken on matters of fa …
gelasius_i · c. 493 · score 0.01
I also perceived in my mind that the Greeks would remain in their obstinacy, nor should this seem unexpected to anyone, since it was foreseen in advance. Wherefore they do not so much strive to oppose the public arrangements on account of religious causes, but rather through the occasion of the royal embassy they endea …
leo_great · c. 441 · score 0.01
He considers himself subject to no law, bound by no ordinance of God, and in his eagerness for novelty, departs from your practice and ours, adopting unlawful measures and letting what he ought to preserve fall into disuse. II. Hilary is disturbing the peace of the Church by his insubordination But with the approval, a …
gelasius_i · c. 495 · score 0.01
But we have already shown that this argument has no foundation in the tradition of the Church, which has always held that the apostolic see has the right to judge all bishops without the necessity of convening a synod, just as it has the right to confirm or annul the decisions of synods. The authority of the apostolic …
gregory_great · c. 593 · score 0.01
I am directing you to see to it that Centegus and his wife Flora receive the ten pounds of gold that have been withheld from them. I have looked into the matter and I am satisfied that this payment is properly owed. Delay in rendering just payment is itself an injustice, and I will not have the Church's administrators …
gregory_great · c. 601 · score 0.01
Brothers and sisters of Panormus, I have appointed Barbarus as your episcopal visitor, and I am writing to require your full obedience to his ministry. He comes with my authority and for your benefit. Do not resist him, do not obstruct his work, and do not use the absence of a permanent bishop as an excuse for failing …
leo_great · c. 441 · score 0.01
He claims for himself the right to ordain bishops throughout all the provinces of Gaul and seizes the dignity that belongs to metropolitan bishops. He even diminishes the reverence owed to the blessed Peter himself with his proud assertions, for while the power of binding and loosing was given to Peter before all other …
gregory_great · c. 594 · score 0.01
Was it not the case -- as you well know -- that the prelates of this Apostolic See, which by God's providence I now serve, were offered the title of "universal" by the venerable Council of Chalcedon? Yet not one of them ever accepted it or claimed this ill-advised name, lest by seizing the glory of singularity by virtu …
innocent_i · c. 407 · score 0.01
Pope Innocent I to Aurelius, Bishop of Carthage, and Augustine, Bishop of Hippo. A brief salutatory letter full of charity. When Emperor Honorius, prompted by Innocent's letters, had written twice to Arcadius about the case of John Chrysostom without result, he asked Innocent to send five bishops, two priests, and a de …